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Investors snap up Hong Kong hotels for conversion to long-term leasing, student accommodation

Investors snap up Hong Kong hotels for conversion to long-term leasing, student accommodation

Last week Stan Group offered the 598-room Hotel Cozi Harbour View in Kwun Tong for sale at an asking price of HK$3.1 billion (US$400 million). (South China Morning Post photo)

HONG KONG: International funds and local investors are snapping up hotels in Hong Kong with the intention of converting them for long-term leasing and student accommodation as the outlook for the city’s tourism industry remains uncertain.

In the past, hotel owners were reluctant to offer their properties for sale as millions of international travellers poured in every year. But many changed their minds as the 2019 anti-government protests and the ensuing Covid-19 pandemic brought the…

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